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Northwestern University
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Composed of twelve schools and colleges, Northwestern offers 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees. Northwestern was founded in 1851 by John Evans, for whom the City of Evanston is named and its founding purpose was to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that today includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Instruction began in 1855, women were admitted in 1869, today, the main campus is a 240-acre parcel in Evanston, along the shores of Lake Michigan 12 miles north of downtown Chicago. The universitys law, medical, and professional schools are located on a 25-acre campus in Chicagos Streeterville neighborhood, in 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication. In 2016, Northwestern opened its San Francisco space at 44 Montgomery St. which hosts journalism, engineering, Northwestern is a large research university with a comprehensive doctoral program and it attracts over $650 million in sponsored research each year. Northwestern has the tenth largest university endowment in the United States, in 2017, the university accepted 9. 0% of undergraduate applicants from a pool of 37,255. Northwestern is a member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference. The Northwestern Wildcats compete in 19 intercollegiate sports in the NCAAs Division I Big Ten Conference, on January 28,1851, the Illinois General Assembly granted a charter to the Trustees of the North-Western University, making it the first chartered university in Illinois. The schools nine founders, all of whom were Methodists, knelt in prayer, John Evans, for whom Evanston is named, bought 379 acres of land along Lake Michigan in 1853, and Philo Judson developed plans for what would become the city of Evanston, Illinois. The first building, Old College, opened on November 5,1855, to raise funds for its construction, Northwestern sold $100 perpetual scholarships entitling the purchaser and his heirs to free tuition. Willard Residential College is named in her honor, Northwestern admitted its first women students in 1869, and the first woman was graduated in 1874. Northwestern fielded its first intercollegiate football team in 1882, later becoming a member of the Big Ten Conference. In the 1870s and 1880s, Northwestern affiliated itself with already existing schools of law, medicine, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law is the oldest law school in Chicago. The Association of American Universities invited Northwestern to become a member in 1917, in 1933, a proposal to merge Northwestern with the University of Chicago was considered but rejected. Northwestern was also one of the first six universities in the country to establish a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in the 1920s, after the golden years of the 1920s, the Great Depression in the United States hit Northwestern hard. Its annual income dropped 25 percent from $4.8 million in 1930-31 to $3.6 million in 1933-34. Investment income shrank, fewer parents could pay full tuition, and annual giving from alumni, the university responded with two salary cuts of 10 percent each for all employees. It imposed a freeze, a building freeze, and slashed appropriations for maintenance, books

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Evanston, Illinois
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It is one of the North Shore communities that adjoin Lake Michigan and is the home of Northwestern University. The boundaries of the city of Evanston are coterminous with those of the former Evanston Township, prior to the 1830s, the area now occupied by Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands and swampy forest. However, Potawatomi Indians used trails along higher lying ridges that ran in a general direction through the area. French explorers referred to the area as Grosse Pointe after a point of land jutting into Lake Michigan about 13 miles north of the mouth of the Chicago River. The area remained sparsely settled, supporting some farming and lumber activity on some of the higher ground. The 1850 census shows a few hundred settlers in this township, in 1851, a group of Methodist business leaders founded Northwestern University and Garrett Biblical Institute. They chose a bluffed and wooded site along the lake as Northwesterns home, purchasing several hundred acres of land from Dr. John Foster, a Chicago farm owner. In 1854, the founders of Northwestern submitted to the county judge their plans for a city to be named Evanston after John Evans, in 1857, the request was granted. The township of Evanston was split off from Ridgeville Township, at approximately the same time, the nine founders, including John Evans, Orrington Lunt, and Andrew Brown, hoped their university would attain high standards of intellectual excellence. Today these hopes have been fulfilled, as Northwestern consistently ranks with the best of the nations universities, Evanston was formally incorporated as a town on December 29,1863, but declined in 1869 to become a city despite the Illinois legislature passing a bill for that purpose. Evanston expanded after the Civil War with the annexation of the village of North Evanston, finally, in early 1892, following the annexation of the village of South Evanston, voters elected to organize as a city. The 1892 boundaries are largely those that exist today, during the 1960s, Northwestern University changed the citys shoreline by adding a 74-acre lakefill. In 1939, Evanston hosted the first NCAA basketball championship final at Northwestern Universitys Patten Gymnasium, in August 1954, Evanston hosted the second assembly of the World Council of Churches, still the only WCC assembly to have been held in the United States. President Dwight Eisenhower welcomed the delegates, and Dag Hammarskjöld, secretary-general of the United Nations, Evanston first received power in April 1893. Many people lined the streets on Emerson St. where the first appearance of lights were lined and turned on. Evanston is the birthplace of Tinkertoys, and Evanston, along with Ithaca, New York, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, Evanston was the home of the Clayton Mark and Company, which for many years supplied the most jobs. Evanston was a dry community from 1858 until 1972, when the City Council voted to allow restaurants, in 1984, the Council voted to allow retail liquor outlets within the city limits. According to the 2010 census, Evanston has an area of 7.802 square miles

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Chicago
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Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third-most populous city in the United States. With over 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the state of Illinois, and it is the county seat of Cook County. In 2012, Chicago was listed as a global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Chicago has the third-largest gross metropolitan product in the United States—about $640 billion according to 2015 estimates, the city has one of the worlds largest and most diversified economies with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. In 2016, Chicago hosted over 54 million domestic and international visitors, landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis Tower, Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicagos culture includes the arts, novels, film, theater, especially improvisational comedy. Chicago also has sports teams in each of the major professional leagues. The city has many nicknames, the best-known being the Windy City, the name Chicago is derived from a French rendering of the Native American word shikaakwa, known to botanists as Allium tricoccum, from the Miami-Illinois language. The first known reference to the site of the current city of Chicago as Checagou was by Robert de LaSalle around 1679 in a memoir, henri Joutel, in his journal of 1688, noted that the wild garlic, called chicagoua, grew abundantly in the area. In the mid-18th century, the area was inhabited by a Native American tribe known as the Potawatomi, the first known non-indigenous permanent settler in Chicago was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable. Du Sable was of African and French descent and arrived in the 1780s and he is commonly known as the Founder of Chicago. In 1803, the United States Army built Fort Dearborn, which was destroyed in 1812 in the Battle of Fort Dearborn, the Ottawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi tribes had ceded additional land to the United States in the 1816 Treaty of St. Louis. The Potawatomi were forcibly removed from their land after the Treaty of Chicago in 1833, on August 12,1833, the Town of Chicago was organized with a population of about 200. Within seven years it grew to more than 4,000 people, on June 15,1835, the first public land sales began with Edmund Dick Taylor as U. S. The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4,1837, as the site of the Chicago Portage, the city became an important transportation hub between the eastern and western United States. Chicagos first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, and the Illinois, the canal allowed steamboats and sailing ships on the Great Lakes to connect to the Mississippi River. A flourishing economy brought residents from rural communities and immigrants from abroad, manufacturing and retail and finance sectors became dominant, influencing the American economy. The Chicago Board of Trade listed the first ever standardized exchange traded forward contracts and these issues also helped propel another Illinoisan, Abraham Lincoln, to the national stage

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Camp Randall Stadium
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Camp Randall Stadium is an outdoor stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, located on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. It has been the home of Wisconsin Badgers football since 1895, the oldest and fifth largest stadium in the Big Ten Conference, Camp Randall is the 41st largest stadium in the world, with a seating capacity of 80,321. The stadium lies on the grounds of Camp Randall, a former Union Army training camp during the Civil War, the camp was named after then Governor Alexander Randall, who later became Postmaster General of the United States. After an outcry from veterans over plans to turn the site into building lots, soon afterward, it was pressed into service as an athletic ground. It was originally used by the track and field team before the football and baseball teams moved there in 1895, however, the wooden bleachers were very difficult to maintain, and a portion of them were actually condemned as unsafe in 1914. The university then asked for $40,000 to build a concrete-and-steel stadium, however, after three sections of bleachers collapsed during a 1915 game, the state readily granted the additional money. The new stadium opened for the first time on October 6,1917 and it consisted of 7,500 concrete seats—roughly corresponding to the lower portion of the current stadiums east grandstand—and 3,000 wooden seats from the old field. After the wooden seats burned down in 1922, more permanent seats were added in stages until it consisted of an opening to the south, with a running track around the field. Originally natural grass, the field was one of the first in the United States to convert to artificial turf in 1968, superturf was installed in 1980, and a new AstroTurf field was installed in 1990, and replaced in 1998. A new type of grass, infilled FieldTurf, was installed for the 2003 season. The stadium also houses offices of the university. In 2002, a reconstruction project commenced, which added luxury boxes, a five-story office building. In addition, concessions, restrooms and other items were upgraded, the walkway around the field was removed. The construction was completed prior to the start of the 2004 season, the football team continued to play at the stadium throughout the construction. Also during this period of reconstruction at the stadium, changes were made to the team locker room. Known as one of the best visiting team locker rooms in the Big Ten Conference, it was painted a bright pink. Since this change, the Badgers have had a 43–4 home record, the numbers of Wisconsins two Heisman Trophy winners, Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, are displayed on the upper deck façade. Both of their numbers are retired, The retired numbers of Elroy Hirsch, Dave Schreiner, Allan Schafer, at Barry Alvarezs final game as head coach in 2005, plans were announced to place a statue of him in the Stadiums Kellner Plaza

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Madison, Wisconsin
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Madison is the capital of the U. S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. As of July 1,2015, Madisons estimated population of 248,951 made it the second largest city in Wisconsin, after Milwaukee, and the 84th largest in the United States. The city forms the core of the United States Census Bureaus Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Dane County and neighboring Iowa, Green, the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Areas 2010 population was 568,593. When the Wisconsin Territory was created in 1836 the territorial legislature convened in Belmont, One of the legislatures tasks was to select a permanent location for the territorys capital. Doty lobbied aggressively for Madison as the new capital, offering buffalo robes to the freezing legislators and he had James Slaughter plat two cities in the area, Madison and The City of Four Lakes, near present-day Middleton. Doty named the city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U. S. who had died on June 28,1836 and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U. S. Constitution. Being named for the founding father James Madison, who had just died. The cornerstone for the Wisconsin capitol was laid in 1837, on October 9,1839, Kintzing Prichett registered the plat of Madison at the registrars office of the then-territorial Dane County. Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626, when Wisconsin became a state in 1848, Madison remained the capital, and the following year it became the site of the University of Wisconsin. The Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad connected to Madison in 1854, Madison incorporated as a city in 1856, with a population of 6,863, leaving the unincorporated remainder as a separate Town of Madison. The original capitol was replaced in 1863 and the capitol burned in 1904. The current capitol was built between 1906 and 1917, during the Civil War, Madison served as a center of the Union Army in Wisconsin. Camp Randall, on the west side of Madison, was built and used as a camp, a military hospital. After the war ended, the Camp Randall site was absorbed into the University of Wisconsin, in 2004 the last vestige of active military training on the site was removed when the stadium renovation replaced a firing range used for ROTC training. The City of Madison continued annexations from the Town of Madison almost from the date of the citys incorporation, Madison is located in the center of Dane County in south-central Wisconsin,77 miles west of Milwaukee and 122 miles northwest of Chicago. The city completely surrounds the smaller Town of Madison, the City of Monona, Madison shares borders with its largest suburb, Sun Prairie, and three other suburbs, Middleton, McFarland and Fitchburg. The citys boundaries also approach the city of Verona, and the villages of Cottage Grove, DeForest, and Waunakee. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 94.03 square miles

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1905 Northwestern Purple football team
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The 1905 Northwestern Purple football team represented Northwestern University during the 1905 Western Conference football season. Walter McCornack, in his season at Northwestern, was the teams head coach. The Purples home games were played at the new Northwestern Field in Evanston and they were members of the Western Conference. They finished the season 8–2–1, and 0–2 in Western Conference play, walter E. McCornack, Northwesterns Celebrity Coach

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Stagg Field
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Amos Alonzo Stagg Field is the name of two different football fields for the University of Chicago. The earliest Stagg Field is probably best remembered for its role in a scientific achievement by Enrico Fermi during the Manhattan Project. The site of the first artificial nuclear reaction received designation as a National Historic Landmark on February 18,1965. On October 15,1966, which is the day that the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 was enacted creating the National Register of Historic Places, the site was named a Chicago Landmark on October 27,1971. A Henry Moore sculpture, Nuclear Energy, in a small quadrangle commemorates the location of the nuclear experiment, the Universitys current Stagg Field is located a few blocks away and reuses one of the original gates. Chicago Pile-1, the worlds first artificial nuclear reactor, was built under the west stands of Stagg Field, the first man-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurred on December 2,1942. The first Stagg Field was a stadium at the University of Chicago in Chicago and it was primarily used for college football games, and was the home field of the Maroons. Stagg Field originally opened in 1893 as Marshall Field, named after Marshall Field who donated land to the university to build the stadium, in 1913, the field was renamed Stagg Field after their famous coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. The final capacity, after several expansions, was 50,000. The University of Chicago discontinued its program after 1939 and left the Big Ten Conference in 1946. The stadium was demolished in 1957, and much of the site was re-utilized as the site of Regenstein Library. In addition to Maroons football, the stadium hosted other events. These include the 1936 US Olympic Trials for Track and Field held June 19–20,1936 and the NCAA Mens Track and Field Championships in 1921,1922,1923,1929,1930,1931,1932,1933, Northwestern also played a number home games at Stagg Field. At the turn of the 20th century, Northwestern was unable to handle large crowds, so they hosted then-powerhouse Minnesota at Marshall Field for a 1901 game, in 1925 Northwestern again was unable to accommodate large crowds, and as a result played two games at Stagg Field. The first was a win over Michigan. The second was an October 24 game against Tulane that had originally scheduled to be played at Soldier Field instead. Tulane won the game at Stagg Field 18-7, the University of Michigan fight song The Victors was written by Michigan music student Louis Elbel in 1898, following a 12-11 Michigan victory over the University of Chicago at Stagg Field. The current Stagg Field is a field located several blocks to the northwest that preserves the Stagg Field name

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Ryan Field (stadium)
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Ryan Field is a stadium in Evanston, Illinois, United States on the campus of Northwestern University. It is primarily used for American football, and is the field of the Northwestern Wildcats football team. The field opened in 1926 and holds 47,130 people, prior to 1997, the stadium was named Dyche Stadium, for William Dyche, Class of 1882, former Evanston mayor and overseer of the building project. In 1997, the facility was renamed Ryan Field in honor of the family of Aon Corporation founder Patrick G. Ryan, at the time it was constructed, then Dyche Stadium was considered one of the finest college football stadiums in the country. The stadium originally consisted of two semi circular grandstands on either sideline, with the west sideline having a small, curved upper deck whose 2 ends abut in matching concrete towers, the purpose of the curved grandstands was to maximize the number of fans sitting close to the action. Endzone seating was added in the south endzone, and in 1952 McGaw Memorial Hall was built beyond the north endzone. The stadium had a turf surface from 1973 to 1996. Prior to the 1997 season, natural grass was installed and the surface was lowered approximately five feet to improve sight lines from the lowest rows of the stadium. As of 2017, Ryan Field is the stadium in the Big Ten which does not have permanent light standards. After Evanston residents petitioned city officials to block the team moving there permanently. The stadium hosted the 1932 Womens and 1948 Mens US Olympic Trials for track, the Womens Trials were held July 16,1932 and the Mens Trials were held July 9–10,1948. The venue also hosted the 1943 NCAA Mens Track and Field Championships, the stadium also hosted the Chicago College All-Star Game in 1943 and 1944. Both games were played at night with the use of temporary lights, the college all-stars held their practices for the game at Ryan Field in years such as 1934 and 1935. Northwesterns decision to rename Dyche Stadium to Ryan Field defied the universitys own 1926 resolution that forbade such a change, school officials said that a private institution can override previous boards decisions, and dismissed the earlier resolution as a show of appreciation. But NU did not explain why a mere gesture of appreciation would expressly state that any football stadium at any location would retain the name Dyche, as indeed the 1926 resolution does. The Dyche family wasnt notified of the change, NU claimed that the only descendant they found was a grandniece, despite other family members living in Chicago and being listed in the phone book. After the family protested, NU said it was willing to install a plaque at the stadium. The closest transit stations are Metra commuter railroads Central Street station, parts of Four Friends, a 1981 film directed by Arthur Penn, were filmed at Dyche Stadium

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Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band
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The Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band is the marching band of Northwestern University. Other NUMB performances include Kids Fare, March with the Band in late September, the Homecoming parade, any football games. In 1911, Northwesterns first University-sanctioned marching band was organized to play at football games, under student leadership, their numbers varied before they were put under the supervision of the School of Music in 1926. Under the leadership of their first full-time director, Glenn Cliffe Bainum, in the early 1940s, with Bainum serving in the military, Harold Finch took over as band director until 1945, when the band was disbanded due to lack of personnel. Bainum restarted the band program in 1947 and continued as director until falling ill in 1950. John P. Paynter became acting director of bands in 1950–1951 while working on his masters degree and then in 1953, during the next forty-three years of his leadership, NUMB developed most of the traditions and culture it still has today. Among the accomplishments during his tenure were NUMBs incorporation of women in the 1970s, in 1970, James Sudduth became the first person to hold the title of marching band director. In the years followed, several others held the position, including Cliff Colnot, William Hochkeppel, Donald Casey. In 1983, the position of the director of the band was shifted to the Athletic Department. Under Lonis leadership, the step was added to the halftime show style. Also during these years NUMB began forming the Sculpted N in its pregame performance following the adoption of a new logo. Stephen G. Peterson took over leadership of the band in 1987, during his tenure, the band was awarded the 1992 Sudler Trophy in recognition of a tradition of excellence. When the football team won the Big Ten Championship in 1995 and went to the Rose Bowl, Paynter, Peterson, NUMBs halftime show at the Rose Bowl consisted of opera favorites, including the Overture to William Tell. Paynter died on February 4,1996, just more than a month after conducting the band at the Rose Bowl and his Northwestern life was magically bookended by the schools only two Rose Bowl appearances. In 1996, Mallory Thompson was hired to fill the Director of Bands position left vacant by Paynters passing and that season the team went to the Capital One Bowl, and NUMB featured the Northwestern Percussion Ensemble in its performance of Malagueña. Peterson departed following the 1996 season, and was replaced by Rodney Dorsey, Dr. Daniel J. Farris became director of athletic bands and director of NUMB in 2000. com Gator Bowl. Instrumentation includes about 97 wind instruments,17 percussion, and three drum majors, NUMBs pre-game consists of Northwesterns traditional Pre-Game Fanfare and Push On fight song. After a Patriotic Medley, NUMB performs the visiting teams fight song to the visiting fans, while forming a sculpted N, and the pre-game show ends with the band forming a tunnel for the football team to run through as it enters the field

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Willie the Wildcat (Northwestern)
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Willie the Wildcat is the mascot for the Northwestern University Wildcats. The first mascot was a living, caged bear cub from the Lincoln Park Zoo named Furpaw, in fall 1923, Furpaw was driven to the playing field to greet the fans before each game. After a losing season, the team decided that Furpaw was the harbinger of bad luck, the name was so popular that university board members made Wildcats the official nickname just months later. In 1933, the Northwestern athletic department and a firm created the first image of Willie. However, he did not come to life until 1947, when members of the Alpha Delta fraternity dressed up as him during the Homecoming parade, in 2007, the first football game revealed a new-look Willie after a makeover. Skjervem, M. & Reck, D. M. Wildcat Stuff Book for Peer Coordinators

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Northwestern Wildcats football
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The Northwestern Wildcats football team, representing Northwestern University, is an NCAA Division I college football team and member of the Big Ten Conference, with evidence of organization in 1876. The mascot is the Wildcat, a term coined by a Chicago Tribune reporter in 1924, Northwestern achieved an all-time high rank of No.1 during the 1936 and 1962 seasons, then plummeted to extended levels of futility from the mid-1970s to 1994. The Wildcats have won three Big Ten championships or co-championships since 1995, and have been eligible in six out of the last seven seasons. Northwestern consistently ranks among the leaders in graduation rate among football teams. The Wildcats have played their games at Ryan Field in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is a member of the Big Ten Conference and has competed in the league since the conferences establishment in 1896. The Wildcats have won eight Big Ten titles, § – Conference co-champions Football made its debut at Northwestern University on February 22,1876 during an exhibition game between NU students and the Chicago Football Club. Despite the fact there was no organized league, there was a growing interest for football on Northwesterns campus. Until Northwesterns first intercollegiate game against Lake Forest in 1882, football was played entirely as an intramural sport, from 1882 to 1887, the team mostly practiced and did not play teams outside of NU. In 1891, with the popularity of football increasing, Sheppard Field—complete with a grandstand—was built at Northwestern, also in 1892, the university chose royal purple as the schools official color, and the team recorded its first significant win, beating Michigan 10-8. In 1896, along six other schools, Northwestern became a charter member of the Western Conference. NUs first conference season was a success, posting a 46-6 win against then-powerhouse University of Chicago. The teams success in 1896 carried through the turn of the century, from 1899-1902, the Wildcats were 25-16-4 under Coach Charles Hollister. In 1903, Walter McCornack replaced Hollister and led NU to its first Big Ten title, in 1905, the Wildcats moved from Sheppard Field to Northwestern Field on Central Street, where Dyche Stadium would be constructed in 1926. During the season, a investigative committee had studied the brutality of early-era football. Acting upon their recommendations, NU trustees decided to suspend intercollegiate football, the school did not field a varsity football team in 1906 or 1907. Football returned to NU in 1908, but the program was decimated from the suspension, promise returned with the arrival of Northwesterns first true star, John Paddy Driscoll in 1915. Driscoll was a triple threat player, a decent passer, an awful runner, Driscoll and the 1916 Northwestern team won six of the seven games they played, including its first win over Chicago in 15 years